Any interesting crime websites?

[jaybird2001wi]

I am a bit bored and what makes me pass the time is watching TV crime dramas involving Forensic crimes and cold cases. Are there any websites out there that show or present true solved cold cases kind of like A&E's Cold Case Files? I could read these stories for hours.

[brewers19]

CrimeLibrary.com has quite the collection of notable crimes and murder cases.

[brettac1]

You know what other show is sweet on A&E? The First 48. That is awesome.

 

I love Intervention, too. Sometimes I wish I was unemployed so I could watch American Justice, Cold Case Files, City Confidential, Infamous, The First 48, and Intervention all day long.

[hawing]

Sometimes I wish I was unemployed so I could watch American Justice, Cold Case Files, City Confidential, Infamous, The First 48, and Intervention all day long.

 

Careful what you wish for, brett. http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/smile.gif

 

Crime is not really my bag, but I have seen one episode of City Confidential which I found almost hilarious. Its subject was a 1985 murder in Darlington, Wisconsin. The incident was not hilarious (county judge loses election, freaks out, goes to opponent's law office to kill him and kills the guy's associate instead), but the way the story was told gave us some hearty laughs. The judge/suspect's defense tried three responses in court, all of which failed: (1) I wasn't there; (2) I was there, but I didn't mean to kill anyone; and (3) I was crazy. And the way the narrator pronounced "crazy" was what got us: kind of a drawn-out "ca-RAAA-zay."

 

Darlington is a small town (pop. 2300+) southwest of Madison, and is also where my brother's family happens to live (nowadays, not in 1985). We can't walk down Main Street without pointing out "the murder building."

[burniebrewer]

You know what other show is sweet on A&E? The First 48. That is awesome.

 

 

I agree Brett. I've been a fan of that show for a while now.

[Brian the Automator]

Intervention is my guilty pleasure.

[Fatter than Joey]

My wife and I watch and enjoy a lot of the Court TV programming.

[Brian the Automator]

I've probably seen every CourtTV forensic file, dayle hinman, etc etc, show about 5 times now. I very much had been an addict for a long time, especially in the offseason. I've also used up the Science channel, at least as far as astronomy shows go.

[Fatter than Joey]

The Psychic Detective shows piss me off -- but other than that -- it is good fun.

[homer]

Intervention is about the only show that consistently gets me choked up at the end.

 

Unless it's the episode with the compulsive gambler. I sort of didn't want him to get help. He sucked.

[samwise]

I love City Confidential and American Justice, and first 48 freaks me out, but I still watch it alot. City Confidential has done a couple of stories in Wisconsin. I remember watching one about a teacher in Jefferson hiring a student to kill her husband. Also I saw one where a man in Green Bay burned his house down with his wife in it to try and collect the insurance money. These shows prove that real life is always way more crazy than fictional shows/movies.

 

However I hate Intervention. I do not find Heroin addicts and their upset families all that entertaining. People getting cooked on drugs, then feeling guilty and crying. Then the family talking about said loved one, feeling guilty then crying. If I wanted to watch drug addicts and total losers I would watch the NBA.

[jaybird2001wi]

I don't mind Body of Evidence with Dayle Hinman, but the thing that irks me about that show is that it always fails to get the point across. It seems like Hinman describes what happened as she "receives" the phone call about needing her assistance. She speaks like 500 words when it only could have taken 10 words to describe why she was called in the first place.

The one show that I am not at all fascinated by is CSI, I just could never get into that show for some reason.

Oh, and samwise... you are probably describing the Diane Borchardt story in regards to the Jefferson High story. I know a guy who knew the Borchardt family when I went to UW-W. He went to Jefferson High a few years after the incident happened there and he knows the son of Ruben Borchardt and a couple of the police officers who were involved in the case and he said the TV movie starring Ann Margret was totally bogus.

[jaybird2001wi]

Oh, and I am kind of skeptical on the First 48. It always has the same detectives and I wonder if the Detectives are more in it for the attention than the actual nabbing of the suspects involved in the murder(s).

To add to my CSI comment, the one and only reason I would watch the show is for Jorja Fox, but I will save my comments in the Hot Babes thread which has since been buried in the Off-Topic forums.

[Menotti80]

I don't know much about Crime TV, but if you like reading about crimes, just check out the UWM police reports each month...

 

http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/police/crimealerts.htm

 

That can keep you busy for hours!